Gabrielle Palmer

“In the west the culture is to try and ignore a baby, even when she is crying pitifully.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Midwives generally understood breastfeeding better than doctors.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“All women need practical and emotional support around birth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial milk has been a hit and miss affair, relying on experimentation on babies.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A tin of infant formula is often the most expensive food item a family has ever purchased.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Nurses also instructed mothers not to let their babies fondle their breasts.39”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“About one-sixth of the world’s population, over a billion people, lack access to safe water.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding was far more successful for the mothers cosleeping than those who slept apart.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Graduate couples were offered free holidays in romantic places in an attempt to induce them to breed,”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Enterobacter sakazakii causes a life-threatening meningitis and survivors may be brain damaged. No exclusively breastfed baby is known to have been infected…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“12. Manufacturers and distributors should comply with the Code (and all subsequent WHA Resolutions on infant feeding) independently of any government action…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“That means not having a baby close to their body or in their bed and most definitely not giving a child free…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The discouragement of sleeping with the baby at night, which had been the norm since the dawn of human life, spread throughout…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Artificial milk is an entirely different substance from human milk, containing no living cells and not adapting to each baby’s individual and…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“in Ward One, run by medical students, childbed fever raged and 29% of women died. In Ward Two, run by midwifery pupils,…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“If advertising simply provided information, it would be hard to object. But a lot of advertising makes us feel we need something…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“If you live in Sierra Leone or Afghanistan it is highly likely that you have lost a relative or friend this way.…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“nutrition in early infancy plays a part in age of menarche indicates that perhaps stopping breastfeeding, giving extra artificial feeds or introducing…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“What is shameful is that with current knowledge of the effects of overwork, lack of health and safety standards, inadequate diet and…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A woman who came from northern Germany and wanted according to the customs of her homeland to nurse her infant herself was…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Without special interventions such as a policy overhaul or staff training, breastfeeding help is not a priority. Staff might be reprimanded if…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In societies where babies are nurtured, not left to cry, and are breastfed whenever they ask, not only are those babies more…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastmilk is designed for rapid digestion and frequent feeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In many less-developed societies, the idea of being unable to breastfeed does not exist.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“breastfeeding should be “the normative model”.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Breastfeeding works better with bed sharing and breastfeeding is protective against SIDS.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“For many women breastfeeding is not an instinct and has to be learned.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Handing out a free sample is taking a stand against breastfeeding.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Most humans who have walked this earth never drank a drop of nonhuman milk.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Commercially prepared formula is recommended for infants during the first 6 to 12 months.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Japan loves bedsharing and there are lower SIDS than the west.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Even in the USA, where artificial feeding is assumed to be safe, it has been calculated that 720 babies between the age…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A baby’s relationship with her mother is the primary experience of love. Does anyone fall in love to a schedule?”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Mothers who share a bed or use a three-sided cot attached to the bed are far more responsive to their babies than…

— Gabrielle Palmer